Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility To Protect

Who Should Intervene?

Combines detailed normative analysis and empirical assessment to tackle on of the key issues faced by the responsibility to protect doctrine

Provides a systematic evaluation of both the current agents of humanitarian intervention and proposals for reform, including for a United Nations Emergency Peace Service

This book considers who should undertake humanitarian intervention in response to an ongoing or impending humanitarian crisis, such as found in Rwanda in early 1994, Kosovo in 1999, and Darfur more recently. The doctrine of the responsibility to protect asserts that when a state is failing to uphold its citizens' human rights, the international community has a responsibility to protect these citizens, including by undertaking humanitarian intervention.
It is unclear, however, which particular agent should be tasked with this responsibility. Should we prefer intervention by the UN, NATO, a regional or subregional organization (such as the African Union), a state, a group of states, or someone else? This book answers this question by, first, determining which qualities of interveners are morally significant and, second, assessing the relative importance of these qualities. For instance, is it important that an intervener have a humanitarian motive? Should an intervener be welcomed by those it is trying to save? How important is it that an intervener will be effective and what does this mean in practice? The book then considers the more
empirical question of whether (and to what extent) the current interveners actually possess these qualities, and therefore should intervene. For instance, how effective can we expect UN action to be in the future? Is NATO likely to use humanitarian means? Overall, it develops a particular normative conception of legitimacy for humanitarian intervention. It uses this conception of legitimacy to assess not only current interveners, but also the desirability of potential reforms to the mechanisms and agents of humanitarian intervention.

Readership: Scholars and students of international relations, political theory,
political philosophy, and international law.

James Pattison, Lecturer in Politics, University of Manchester

"I would recommend this text to all those who want to take the debate surrounding humanitarian intervention-and the responsibility to protect-one step further." - Adrian Gallagher, Political Studies Review

1: The Problem of Who Should Intervene
2: Humanitarian Intervention and International Law
3: Effectiveness and the Moderate Instrumentalist Approach
4: An Intervener's Conduct: Humanitarian Intervention and Jus In Bello
5: Representativeness and Humanitarian Intervention
6: An Intervener's Humanitarian Credentials: Motives, Intentions, and Outcomes
7: Assessing Current Interveners
8: Reforms to the Agents and Mechanisms of Humanitarian Intervention
9: Conclusion: Realizing Legitimate Humanitarian Intervention
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